Two PNC Plaza is a high-rise office building located in the Golden Triangle

Downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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 of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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, United States

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. Constructed in 1976, it is 446 feet (136 m) in height and has 34 stories, making it the tallest of three buildings in PNC Plaza. In order to make room for the structure, a through street called Oliver Avenue was closed.

The structure was built by Equibank, one of the Pittsburgh region's three major finanical institutions, and was completed just four years after and only a few feet away from One PNC Plaza

One PNC Plaza

One PNC Plaza is a high-rise office building located in the Golden Triangle neighborhood of the Central Business District of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Constructed in 1972, it is 30 stories. It houses the general offices for PNC Financial Services...

, the home of their major rival (which was then named Pittsburgh National Bank). Equibank went into a sharp decline in the 1980s due to poor investments surrounding a Florida

Florida

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 housing bubble and a series of defaulted loans from newly privatized South America

South America

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n companies. Simultaneously, PNC was growing and began expanding into their rival's building next door. Interestingly, PNC eventually not only acquired the building but also a portion of Equibank's operations (the company was merged with the smaller Integra Bank

Integra Bank (Pittsburgh)

Integra Financial was a Pittsburgh-based bank that was eventually acquired by National City Corp. in late 1995 in one of National City's first attempts at becoming a major powerhouse in American banking....

 in 1992, Integra was purchased by National City Corp.

National City Corp.

National City Corporation was a regional bank holding company based in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, founded in 1845; it was once one of the ten largest banks in America in terms of deposits, mortgages and home equity lines of credit. Subsidiary National City Mortgage is credited for doing the first...

in 1995, and PNC purchased National City in 2008).